Babasaheb Neelkanth Kalyani is an Indian businessman who serves as the chairman and managing director of Bharat Forge, the flagship company of the Kalyani Group and the world's second-largest forgings manufacturer after ThyssenKrupp of Germany.Baba kalyani was born on 7 January 1949 to Sulochana and Neelakanth Kalyani, a Pune based technocrat and maker of auto components. He attended BITS Pilani, from where he earned a BE(Hons.) in Mechanical Engineering, and later in Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he earned an MS degree.Baba Kalyani joined Bharat Forge in 1972 when the company's annual turnover was about US $ 1.3 million; it then became a global company with 11 manufacturing facilities spread across India, USA, Germany, Sweden, and China.Kalyani pioneered the export of automobile components from India to China in 2002. Bharat Forge was the country's largest exporter of automotive components for eight consecutive years, with exports contributing almost 50% to total sales. Every second heavy truck manufactured in USA runs on a "Made by Bharat Forge, India" front axle beam. Bharat Forgea??s global customer base comprises 38 automobile manufacturers besides several tier suppliers to the industry. Customers include General Motors, Toyota, Ford, Mercedes Benz, BMW, Volkswagen, Honda, Renault, Volvo, Cummins, Caterpillar-Perkins, ArvinMeritor and Dana Corporation.As part of THE company's diversification into non-automotive business, Bharat Forge entered into a Joint Venture with ALSTOM Power & NTPC to manufacture equipment for super-critical power plants coming up in the country.Kalyani serves on the Boards of many companies and represents industry on several Industry, Trade and Educational institutions in India and abroad. Notable amongst these are the National Manufacturing Competitiveness Council [NMCC] and the National Knowledge Commission [NKC].He is the Founder Chairman of Pratham Pune Education Foundation, an NGO that is engaged

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The group under the chairmanship of Baba Kalyani, chairman of Bharat Forge Ltd, has suggested an enabling framework for Ease of Doing Business (EoDB) in 3Es (Employment and Economic Enclaves-3Es) in s...

president of SIDM Baba Kalyani and director-general of SIDM Lt Gen Subrata Saha said the new defence policy has fixed a target of Rs 35,000 crore of exports by 2025 while the current export is only Rs ...